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Post by The Great Gatsby on Sept 24, 2009 11:28:12 GMT -5
lol, this is like asking why most turtles out of Japan have those weird birdish mouths.
Oh wait...
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Post by kirbychu on Sept 24, 2009 12:52:06 GMT -5
"choki" in Japanese, for example. Maybe when cutting construction paper, otherwise, I don't hear it. "Chok" kinda sounds more accurate than "snip" to me... I've always found English onomatopoeia strange. We use "baa" for the sound a sheep makes, but if you actually listen to a sheep, it's more like "maa". I also think the Japanese "nya" is more accurate than our "meow". But then they have "kero" for frog noises, which I don't hear at all. |
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Post by Shrikeswind on Sept 24, 2009 12:58:55 GMT -5
I'm the opposite: Meow and Kero sound pretty accurate to me. I've been around cats a while and have listened for "Nya." Can't pin it. I hear "Meow" alot. With onomatopoeia, it's pretty much a human's way of making the noise without making it, so cat goes "Meow," but it doesn't say "Meow." Kero reminds me of Croak, but in a more froggish way: "Kerrrrr-o. Kerrrrrr-o." "Ribbit" is an incredibly specific sound, so I'm less apt to listen for that and more apt to listen for the croaks, chirps, grunts, and other miscellaneous noises when I'm listening to frogs.
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Post by kirbychu on Sept 24, 2009 13:20:51 GMT -5
Well, with cat noises it really depends on the cat. I've had three. Two were basically mute, and the other always greeted me with a very distinct high-pitched "nya".
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Post by Shrikeswind on Sept 24, 2009 14:53:36 GMT -5
Huh. I have to keep listening, I guess. All seven of the meowing cats I've had (to my memory) in my life have gone "Meow." Guess I just kept getting English-speaking cats.
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Post by parrothead on Nov 17, 2009 14:33:19 GMT -5
Usually when I hear cats, they sound like "now" and especially "rauw".
Not all frogs sound the same. Some do squeaks and beeps. The more well-known frogs, in my opinion, sound like they are saying "broke it" or "frog it". I heard one's squeal in the ZooTube segment of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno sound like a slightly high-pitched 1950s police car siren.
I've seen a video titled "Talking Goat" showing a goat shouting "Huh?" and "W-what?"
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Post by Fryguy64 on Nov 18, 2009 5:05:35 GMT -5
Not all frogs sound the same. Some do squeaks and beeps. The more well-known frogs, in my opinion, sound like they are saying "broke it" or "frog it". I heard one's squeal in the ZooTube segment of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno sound like a slightly high-pitched 1950s police car siren. This was actually featured on Stephen Fry's UK game show QI, which aims to demolish "general ignorance". There is only one kind of frog that goes "ribbit", but it happens to be a frog native to Hollywood. Because of this, "ribbit" has been used throughout cinema as the noise a frog makes, regardless of location or species. And yes, frogs make a vast range of noises... It is very very likely that a frog common in Japan sounds more like "kero". |
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Post by Hiker of Games on Nov 18, 2009 11:14:23 GMT -5
There's these frogs up here in Indiana on the lake my grandma lives. They make this very distinct "Boing" sound when they croak. It drives me up the wall because it sounds so unnatural.
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Post by Shrikeswind on Nov 18, 2009 14:17:21 GMT -5
And yet it seems so natural a frog would go "Boing." =P By the way, this Asian species of turtle has a beak. There are actually several species of beaked turtles in the world, including in the United States, of particular note the Snapping Turtle. That being said, the beak on this one would obviously NOT be the inspiration for, say, Koopas, due to the exaggeration of the beak. There's obviously a more prominant beak on an Asian turtle somewhere, but the point is that beak-like structures do exist on turtles. |
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Post by The Great Gatsby on Nov 18, 2009 23:06:13 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure those sort of beaks are inspired by Kappas; whether or not there are turtles with such noticable beaks is beyond me.
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Post by Shrikeswind on Nov 19, 2009 15:07:48 GMT -5
I don't think so, Kappas are generally portrayed with more duck-like beaks than the parrot-mouthed turtles we get.
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Post by Saim on Dec 4, 2009 21:59:57 GMT -5
Latin noun not of second declension fail.
(Sorry, I just had to.)
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Post by Shrikeswind on Dec 4, 2009 22:10:06 GMT -5
What? And more to the point, who cares? If the point is clear, does the grammar leading to it matter?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Dec 6, 2009 5:53:57 GMT -5
Latin noun not of second declension fail. (Sorry, I just had to.) You can't go around doing that on the internet. That's conversation fail. And kinda makes you a bit of a dick. |
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Post by The Qu on Dec 6, 2009 20:33:36 GMT -5
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